SLIPPERY ROCK — There are “total team efforts” and then there are total team efforts.

Slippery Rock High School unleashed an all-hands-on-deck barrage upon visiting Erie East Friday night en route to an easier-than-easy 66-6 victory in District 10 Region 5 football action.

Thirteen different players carried the ball for the unbeaten Rockets (5-0), who ground out 532 yards on 35 rushing attempts.

Leading the way was sophomore running back Ryan Lauster, who gained a game-high 131 yards on only three carries, two of which he toted into the end zone.

Lauster's 39-yard run accounted for the game's second TD with 3:33 left in the first quarter, while his 65-yard dash with a minute left in the third period was the second-to-last score of the game.

Lauster was the only player to score more than one touchdown as nine different Rockets crossed the goal line.

Senior Frank Conlon added 91 yards on six carries, including a 4-yard touchdown after five minutes had elapsed off the game clock and accounted for the first of 10 Rocket touchdowns.

Sophomore Trenton Porter finished with 83 yards on only two carries, highlighted by a 35-yard sprint for the game's final TD with 8:43 showing on the running fourth-period clock.

Eddie Williams, who scored East's only points on a 43-yard run late in the third period, had 129 yards on six carries to pace a visiting attack that managed only 152 total yards (72 rushing, 80 passing).

The Rockets scored 21 first-quarter points and added 20 second-period tallies to take a 41-0 lead into the intermission and initiate the mercy rule.

Slippery Rock collected 210 rushing yards in the first two periods of action, while East was held to minus-36 yards on 27 offensive plays in the first two stanzas.

Senior wide receiver and defensive back Chris Reeseman, when asked after the game, had to think awhile before he could find something the Rockets did not do extremely well in the game.

“We had a couple of penalties early and we didn't complete the one pass we attempted,” said Reeseman, who returned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown and also recorded one of the Rockets' three interceptions.

Reeseman was also reminded the Rockets missed four extra-point kicks, an oversight that tells you how inconsequential those failures were and how totally dominant the Rockets were en route to their second 60-plus-point scoring effort in as many weeks.

There really wasn't much Slippery Rock head coach Brendan Hathaway could, or even needed, to say after the game other than the proverbial, “This was a total team effort tonight.”

But Hathaway did pay tribute to his beaten foes, who only dressed 20 players.

“My hat's off to East and their coaches,” Hathaway said. “They have had a lot of injuries and were really short-handed tonight, but they battled us to the end. We just had too many kids on the sidelines and we wore them down.”

Hathaway and Reeseman, as do all the Rockets, know the sledding will be much tougher next Friday, when Slippery Rock travels to Warren for a Region 5 duel. The Dragons suffered their first loss of the season on Friday against Oil City.

“It's on us as coaches and players to make sure we're ready for each week's game,” Hathaway said. “That's what we've done each week this season and that will be particularly true next week.”

When asked if a pair of blowout wins in the games leading up to the showdown in Warren helped or hurt the Rockets in their preparations for that game, both Hathaway and Reeseman said simply, “We'll find out next week.”

Reeseman's punt return for a touchdown with 1:25 left to play in the first quarter gave the Rockets a 21-0 lead heading into the second stanza.

Senior running back Chris Gaul ran for a 2-yard TD, junior Brandon McKnight galloped 48 yards for a score and junior Shane Kirkwood sprinted 64 yards to paydirt in the second quarter to push the margin to 41-0 at halftime.

Senior quarterback Jake Whitmer rambled 11 yards for a touchdown on the third play of the third period and junior Brady Kadlubek scored from a yard out to inflate the hosts' lead to 54-0 before Williams scored East's only points.

Ryan Lauster dashed 65 yards for a TD in the final minute of the third period and Porter blazed 35 yards to the end zone to cap the scoring parade.